{ "id": 8725052, "name": "Wallace v. Johnson", "name_abbreviation": "Wallace v. Johnson", "decision_date": "1950-11-13", "docket_number": "4-9281", "first_page": "878", "last_page": "891", "citations": [ { "type": "official", "cite": "217 Ark. 878" }, { "type": "parallel", "cite": "234 S.W.2d 49" } ], "court": { "name_abbreviation": "Ark.", "id": 8808, "name": "Arkansas Supreme Court" }, "jurisdiction": { "id": 34, "name_long": "Arkansas", "name": "Ark." }, "cites_to": [ { "cite": "161 N. W. 461", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "N.W.", "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "157 N. W. 943", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "N.W.", "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "179 la. 377", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Iowa", "case_ids": [ 2235084 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/iowa/179/0377-01" ] }, { "cite": "28 S. 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Johnson." ], "opinions": [ { "text": "G-rifeiN Smith, Chief Justice.\nLand carved from 960 acres near Monette, in the Eastern District of Craighead County, was described in an executory contract, and some of it forms the subject-matter of this controversy.\nActivities resulting in the Chancery suit had their inception in efforts of Dr. W. E. Yount, equitable owner of the parent tract, to clear his indebtedness and salvage something from this valuable holding. He employed C. M. Boydstun, of Jonesboro, as agent, and H. M. Cooley, of the same city, as lawyer-agent, to deal with the lands. Dr. Yount, a dentist, residing at Cape Girardeau, Mo., found personal supervision of the property to be impracticable.\nIn December, 1929, Dr. Yount agreed to sell W. B. Wallace and Everett Wallace two tracts, one containing 80 acres and the other 20. There is evidence that the described area actually contained 101 acres, 43 of which were cleared and contained a house and barn. Dr. Yount, realizing the difficulty he would have in removing legal encumbrances from the land, accepted a down payment of $100 and consented that the next payment ($1,775, representing a fourth of the balance on the basis of $75 per acre) should be made when he could show a merchantable title. The method provided for payment of the remaining three-fourths (less the $100 that went with the contract) is not important here; nor are we concerned with sales contracts made in 1929 by Dr. Yount with other parties, and with his later contracts.\nThere is testimony that the land is quite valuable now \u2014worth, perhaps, $150 per acre. Some witnesses thought that $30 per acre would represent actual values in 192.9, and that the contract price of $75 was extremely high.\nDue to depressed conditions following 1929, W. B. and Everett Wallace were willing to negotiate with Dr. Yount on a basis differing from the written contract, although it is possible.that they could have stood-on the strict letter of their agreement that the second payment was not due until an abstract had been supplied and that title to the property be merchantable.\nThey elected, however, to accept Dr. Yount\u2019s suggestion, made through the agent Boydstun, that for 1930 and 1931 a fourth of the cotton and a third of other crops would be delivered to Dr. Yount, proceeds to be applied to the payment of taxes and insurance. If, after making these payments, a balance remained, it would be applied on the purchase price.\nThe Sturdivant Bank of Cape Girardeau held an eleven thousand dollar second mortgage on Dr. Yount\u2019s lands, and the Doctor owed considerable interest on this mortgage. C. A. Yandivort was the bank\u2019s president. In September, 1931, Yount deeded the entire property to Vandivort, who acted as trustee for the bank. In 1933 Dr. Yount filed voluntary bankruptcy proceedings, and there was an adjudication in 1934. If sums paid by contract purchasers of the Craighead County lands were thought by the buyers to be due them from Dr. Yount, they failed to file claims.\nAs president of the bank Yandivort designated Boydstun to collect rents.\nAppellant claims that Vandivort, while inspecting the properties late in 1931, agreed with W. B. Wallace to accept payments on the basis of a third and fourth, as Dr. Yount had, until it was possible to procure a deed. On the first of January, 1932, Boydstun and W. B. Wallace executed a supplemental contract relating to \u201cabout 83 acres of cleared land\u201d wherein Vandivort was mentioned as owner and Wallace as lessee. The arrangement called for payments based on a third and fourth. The contract, signed \u201cC. A. Vandivort, by C. M. Boyd-stun, agent,\u201d bound Wallace to deliver possession of the property at termination of the contract- \u2014 the crop year of 1932. There was, however, this paragraph: \u201c [W. B. Wallace] has a contract of purchase with W. E. Yount, which has been purchased by C. A. Vandivort, (giving the date) and it is agreed . . . that if said contract . . . ' remains in . . . force, then all rentals on the lands described in said contract paid under [this supplemental agreement] shall be credited on the indebtedness or amount due thereunder, leaving- the balance due as called for in said contract. \u2019 \u2019\nBoydstun testified that W. B. Wallace told him in .1930 that he had a contract with Dr. Yount, and if \u201cthey\u201d were able to pay for the land, that 40-acre tract was to go to Everett Wallace and the remaining 60 acres to A. J. and B. A. Wallace. The only agreement Boydstun had with Vandivort covered renting, farm supervision, and related matters, but in January of 1932 he had no right to bind Vandivort on a contract of sale or to conduct such negotiations. Inferences to be drawn from this testimony are that personal knowledge regarding Dr. Yount\u2019s contract of 1929 and Boydstun\u2019s information that Vandivort had succeeded Yount as proprietor prompted Boydstun\u2019s reference to the old contract when the supplement was executed. Boydstun did not inform Vandivort of the content or send his principal a copy, although on cross-examination such assurance of failure was somewhat weakened. Vandivort testified that he did not know of this provision, hence could not ratify it. Furthermore, Boydstun insisted that he exhibited to all of the tenants his letter of limited authority, and told [Wallace] that the contract [relating, presumptively, to the sale] was absolutely worthless without Vandivort\u2019s approval, \u201cand that the burden of getting that was on him. \u2019 \u2019\nThrough various methods of payment and compromise with creditors Vandivort acquired all outstanding claims to the 960 acres, completing payments in 1935 or 1936. The Sturdivant Bank failed in 1932 and its affairs were administered by the Missouri Commissioner of Finance who in turn executed a deed to Yandivort personally. In December, 1942, Vandivort and his wife conveyed to their seven children for a recited consideration of $1 and love and affection.\nW. B. Wallace died in 1945, survived by his widow, and by the appellant Everett, and five other children. The widow died in 1949 after this litigation was begun.\nThe original action by Yandivort\u2019s grantees was forcible entry and detainer, but with other pleadings it became apparent that the justiciable question would be whether the Wallace group could prevail upon their assertions of equitable rights, hence the cause was properly transferred to Chancery, and of course it was not tried on the initial allegation.\nThough not conceded by express words, undisputed proof shows that the only cash payment made by any of the Wallaces was the initial $100, although they contend that crop values in excess of the agreed third and fourth, less taxes, insurance, etc., would on a master\u2019s accounting sheet disclose complete liquidation of the purchase price. Abandonment, with citations to specific acts indicating that the Wallaces did not intend to carry out their contract after the depression began late in 1929, and laches, were pleaded.\nTouching upon the extent of Boydstun\u2019s authority, counsel for appellant asked his client: \u201cDid you ever have a conversation with Mr. Yandivort about the land: about Mr. Boydstun\u2019s authority?\u201d A. \u201cYes, sir. [Mr. Yandivort] said he might not get \u201cdown [to Craighead County] very often, and for us to talk with \u2018Uncle Charlie\u2019 \u2014 that\u2019s what he called Mr. Boydstun. \u201d Q. \u201cAnd Mr. Boydstun collected all payments made by you and the other tenants in the neighborhood, looked after the land, and discussed the planting of crops with you?\u201d A. \u201cYes, sir.\u201d\nTwo additional houses and barns were constructed in the 1930\u2019s, but Yandivort furnished materials and the Wallaces did the work. Most of the land was cleared by appellant and Ms relatives before Yandivort bought for the bank. According to Everett Wallace, be did not ask Vandivort for a deed until 1937, but did repeat the request in 1943. Before the suits were filed appellant bad on one occasion used fertilizer on bis acreage and Yan-divort reimbursed bim for a fourth of the cost. On cross-examination appellant admitted that in November, 1932, be accepted a receipt from Boydstun as agent acknowledging on behalf of himself and bis father that $132.94 bad been paid. The total was evidenced by an adding machine slip penciled, \u201c$36.72 rent.\u201d It was then stipulated that all of the receipts were marked \u201crent.\u201d At least one cheek, issued in 1942, was given- appellant by Yandivort to reimburse Wallace for money be, bad spent in repairing the bouse in which be lived on the 43-acre tract.\nIn cross-examining appellant be was asked whether, in September, 1943, be \u201csold out, \u2018lock, stock, and barrel\u2019, to bis brotherPete, [including] tools, team, ungatbered crops, etc., and remained away until January, 1946?\u201d In partially affirming the transactions, appellant admitted the sales, but denied that be was off the place all of the time embraced within the dates. An exhibit offered by appellees was the contract of B. A. (Pete) Wallace dated Nov. 1, 1943, covering 101 acres. Wallace signed as tenant and Yandivort for bis children. It was renewed for 1945.\nParticularly during the depression years it was necessary for appellant and bis father to borrow money for crop-making purposes. Funds were advanced by the Bertig Gin Company and others. In July, 1934, Everett, A. J., and B. A. Wallace certified to the U. S. Department of Agriculture, AAA division, that they bad rented lands from Boydstun as agent for Yandivort \u201cfor a share of the crop,\u201d and that each was to furnish bis own work stock and equipment \u201cand manage the tract of land which [I] have rented, . . . the landlord to pay for major repairs on the place. \u2019 \u2019\nIn an undated letter to Henry Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, the three Wallaces in Craighead County said: \u201cLWe] are cotton producers and rent land from an owner and furnisli seed, teams, tools, and labor, and manage the operation of the farm. [We] are interpreted (interested?) in the contract as managing share-tenants, and [were] refused rights to execute a cotton-reduction contract with [our] landowner, Mr. C. A. Vandivort. He has executed a reduction contract without allowing me to sign in \u00a7 12. [We] hereby ask that payment be held until we can come to some agreement.\u201d\nThere was some testimony directed to the relationship between Boydstun and Vandivort, having for its purpose a showing that the agent\u2019s authority was more than that of making rental contracts, collecting crop ap-portionments, and other acts of superintendency. Boyd-stun no doubt assisted those who were cultivating the lands in procuring advances on prospective crops, and to this extent prepared waivers in favor of those making the loans. But the waivers were not signed by Boydstun. On the contrary they were sent directly to Vandivort.\nIn January, 1934, Vandivort, the Wallaces, and others met at Black Oak to discuss appropriate division of government benefits that were being paid to farmers. The understanding was evidenced by a writing dated the 31st of that month, the introductory sentence being, We, the undersigned landowner and tenant. A. J. and Everett Wallace signed as tenants, and Vandivort as landlord.\nW. I. Doyle, who as tenant participated in the Black Oak discussions, testified that in July, following, Vandi-vort was present at the AAA meeting heretofore referred to and signed a waiver \u201cfor all of us\u201d to get money for crop production. Vandivort had stated at the meeting that he wanted to collect these benefits \u201cto apply on those deeds for crop production loans. \u2019 \u2019 On one occasion when the witness Doyle was with Wallace (presumptively Everett) and Boydstun, Wallace mentioned his desire to buy from Vandivort. This was before Everett left the land \u2014 probably in the spring or summer of 1942. Wallace asked Boydstun if the land could be bought and Boydstun said he didn\u2019t know. Wallace then said he was in .a position to pay $4,000 casli for tlie forty [or 43] acres, having arranged to borrow that sum.\nDoyle denied an assertion by Wallace to the effect that he (the witness) was present at a meeting between Yandivort and Wallace in 1937 or 1943 when Wallace demanded of Vandivort that a deed to the land be executed. Wallace later told Boydstnn that he had written Yandivort, and that Yandivort replied that he did not want to sell. A copy of Vandivort\u2019s letter to Wallace, dated August 15, 1942, was identified by the writer. In it he said: \u201cI have considered your proposal to buy the forty acres on which you live, [but] think it best that I not sell it. \u2019 \u2019\nA. J. (Nate) Wallace, Everett\u2019s brother, testified that in 1940 he leased 30 acres of the 100-acre tract, that another brother had 30 acres, \u201cand Everett was living on the other 40.\u201d In August, 1947, H. A. Wallace stated in writing that he had not at any time made a claim of ownership to an interest in the 80-acre tract, either on his own behalf or as an heir of W. B. Wallace. There was testimony that Nate Wallace made similar statements.\nOn December 20, 1944, W. B. Wallace made an independent landlord-and-tenant contract with Vandivort. By indorsement it was extended to cover 1945.\nThe record shows a letter of July 12, 1945, marked \u201cPlaintiff\u2019s Exhibit O.\u201d It is written with ink on a penned letterhead, and is addressed to Everett Wallace, and is signed, \u201cC. A. Yandivort.\u201d Appellant\u2019s contention is that it was in response to an inquiry whether the land was for sale. Vandivort testified that he did not write the letter, that it was not written by any of his children, and that he had never had. stationery of that kind. Everett Wallace had testified that he wrote Yan-divort in 1945, asking if the place could be bought. He had seen the property advertised in a real estate office, and wondered why \u201chis\u201d property was being sold.\nAfter the case had been fully developed Chancellor Cherry rendered a decree in favor of the Vandivort interests. Before lapse of the term the Chancellor acted favorably upon a motion by counsel for Wallace that the decree be vacated and retrial allowed because, as it was contended, new evidence had been discovered.\nThis evidence was a contract of June 19, 1934, between Yandivort, Boydstun, and H. M. Cooley. It recited Vandivort\u2019s purchase of the Yount property and disclosed Yandivort\u2019s assent to the statement that Boydstun and Cooley had contracted with Dr. Yount to sell the 960 acres under the arrangement referred to, and contracts were accordingly made. It was Vandivort\u2019s desire that Boydstun and Cooley should \u201ccontinue their efforts to a final conclusion of sale of all said lands and assist in refinancing the same,\u201d therefore an agency was created. Cooley, as attorney, was to receive a stipulated compensation for the services he had rendered Dr. Yount as attorney, [and for services rendered Yount and Yandi-vort] \u201cin connection with said lands.\u201d The sums so stipulated were to compensate for any services Cooley might render \u201cin connection with handling all matters that may be litigated in the future pertaining to said lands for C. A. Yandivort.\u201d\nThe amounts so stipulated were to be paid from net proceeds \u2018 \u2018 derived from the sale of lands that have been sold and that may be hereafter sold, and it is contemplated that C. M. Boydstun shall serve as real estate agent in making sale of the remainder of said lands yet unsold, . . . and for said additional services of [Cooley and Boydstun] in connection with the remainder of said lands and the handling of all matters pertaining to the sale and the legal work,\u201d pay would be as fixed in the contract; and \u201cthe amount hereinbefore mentioned shall cover all services by [Boydstun and Cooley] that have been rendered and that may hereafter be rendered until the final completion of the same. It is agreed that all contracts heretofore entered into with the men now on said lands shall be carried out as near as possible between said parties and in the manner as [Yandivort, Boydstun, and Cooley] may deem proper and equitable in connection with said contracts.\u201d\nCounsel for the appellant thinks wording of this contract, though admittedly unknown to any of the Wal-laces at the time of its execution, discloses affirmative acknowledgment by Yandivort of his obligations to appellant and his relatives, therefore rental arrangements with Dr. Yount, and the practice continued by Yandivort when he succeeded to the title, should be regarded as expediencies treated at the time as temporary. But, says appellant, whether Yandivort did or did not intend to perform under the Yount contracts, W. B.. and Everett Wallace were on the property when Yandivort took over, and he was charged with constructive knowledge of any claim their possession would support.\nAppellees reply that C. A. Yandivort\u2019s understanding of these contracts (and there were contracts with third parties signed by Dr. Yount about the time he dealt with the Wallaces and later) was influenced by the rental agreements; that he assumed from the conduct of W. B. and Ev-erett Wallace that when the \u201cbottom fell out of real estate values\u201d they were anxious to remain as tenants, but were wholly incapable of completing purchase payments, and that they were being accommodated by the novation- \u2014 to which would attach an implication of finality insofar' as the obligation to purchase was an element.\nIn a cross-complaint appellant sought specific performance of the 1929 contract and asked that a master be appointed to state an account.. The pleading, in the prayer for affirmative relief, included all of the property mentioned in Dr. Yount\u2019s contract, and alleged that in defending and prosecuting the plaintiff was acting for himself and \u201cfor the use and benefit of other heirs of W. B. Wallace.\u201d\nIn June, 1947, the defendants moved to dismiss for misjoinder of parties. The motion was overruled by Judge Cherry, but sustained by Chancellor C. M. Buck when the final decree was rendered. It was Judge Buck\u2019s view that the joint contract was not divisible, that W. B. Wallace had no intention of carrying out the contract, nor was such intention evidenced by Wallace\u2019s other named sons after his death. But the Chancellor thought that Everett Wallace, in good faith, had undertaken to comply with his obligations. However, his failure to designate other Wallace heirs as plaintiffs or defendants justified the holding of misjoinder or nonjoinder. Rents for 1946, 1947, 1948, and 1949 for which Everett Wallace should account were found to be $2,567.68, but $2,060.24. of this sum had been paid, bonds and cross-bonds having been executed.\nOur conclusion is that the Chancellor\u2019s finding that W. B. Wallace had abandoned his contract is sustained by a preponderance of the evidence; but we think a like finding should he made as to Everett. This makes it unnecessary to determine whether other Wallace heirs were necessary parties.\nEven when the Wallace-Yount contract was made, the equitable grantees had notice that a lien-free title might not be obtainable, so there was inserted in the document a paragraph reading: \u201cIn the event [Dr. Yount] is unable to secure a release of said lands from mortgages, then [W. B. and Everett Wallace] agree to pay customary rentals. . . .\u201d\nOf course if Vandivort had information from which a reasonable man would have concluded that the original parties were not treating the contract as rescinded, liability would attach to successive owners on the ground that possession puts a purchaser on inquiry. Whatever the facts may have been for the years through 1931, there was conduct thereafter to show that the Wallaces were satisfied with tenancy arrangements. Although the mere act of designating landlord and tenant relationships in dealing with the AAA would not be determinative of the .issue, doubtless something more than mere curiosity' prompted appellant to claim that he wrote Yandivort in 1945 asking if the land could be bought.\nCertainly the joint protest of Everett, A. J., and B. A. Wallace to the Secretary of Agriculture at Washington was their studied complaint. On cross-examination Everett admitted that he wrote the letter. Presumptively it was mailed in 1934, for its use as an exhibit is followed by transcript references to a pliotostatic copy of a \u201cLandlord Agreement\u201d of July 23, 1934. Everett, A. J., and B. A. Wallace were among those who subscribed as tenants, with Vandivort as landlord.\nAlthough facts in the case at bar are not like those controlling the decision in Harris v. Lemley, 131 Ark. 471, 199 S. W. 373, there is in that case a distinct recognition that one may, as a matter of law, be held to have abandoned a contract.\nAbandonment and rescission are words quite often used indiscriminately. The general rule seems to be that the fee owner of realty will not be held to have abandoned his rights unless by some recognized process the title has been divested. In this respect the law is not the same as that applicable to homestead or estates on condition, and it is held that the equitable doctrine of laches or abandonment applies only to easements or licenses and such special rights and abandonment has no application to vested estates; but the title, though not lost by abandonment, might be barred by estoppel or the statute of limitation. Thompson on Real Property, v. 5, pp. 314-15. While failure of vendor and vendee to perform or offer to perform the contract does not alone operate as a mutual rescission, conduct inconsistent with the original intent may \u2014 particularly if it is engaged in for a protracted period \u2014 disclose the purpose of one or both of the parties as clearly as though there had been express declarations.\nWell-reasoned cases hold that as to lands mere temporary absence or nonuser is not sufficient evidence of abandonment, the term \u201cabandonment\u201d having been discussed by the textwriter as a mode of divestiture of title to property in general. American Jurisprudence, v. 1, \u00a7\u00a7 1 and 14. In his work on the Law of Real Property, Tiffany says, v. 4, \u00a7 962, that surrender by act and operation of law, which is expressly excepted from the Statute of Frauds, is a surrender which the law infers from certain acts by the parties as being inconsistent with the continued existence of [the former status]. In his comments on surrender of estates and interests not necessarily identical with the one here involved, Tiffany says that the right is yielded by operation of law \u201cwhen the tenant accepts from the reversioner a new lease, to begin immediately, or at any time during the existence of the previous lease, this result being based on the theory that, by such acceptance, the tenant is estopped to deny the validity of such lease, which nevertheless cannot be valid unless the first lease is terminated.\u201d\nThe Restatement of Contracts, [v. 2, \u00a7 406 (b) (c)] construes the law to be that an agreement to rescind need not be expressed in words. \u201cMutual assent to abandon a contract, like mutual assent to form one, may be manifested in other ways than by words. Therefore, if either party wrongfully expresses a wish or intention to abandon performance of the contract, and the other party fails to object, there may be sometimes circumstances justifying the inference of assent to a rescission. Sometimes even circumstances of a negative character, such as failure by both parties to take any steps looking toward the enforcement or performance of a contract, may amount to a manifestation of mutual assent to rescind it. . . . The question is not one of words, but of substance. Whether the parties talked of \u2018rescission\u2019, \u2018release\u2019, \u2018discharge\u2019, \u2018waiver\u2019, or \u2018forgiveness\u2019 of the right is immaterial.\u201d We are not here concerned with the Restatement\u2019s illustration No. 2, p. 771 of vol. 2, where the Statute of Frauds is discussed. In the case at bar there is written evidence of appellant\u2019s intentions in dealing with the property.\nIn circumstances strikingly similar to the case at bar, except that notice of forfeiture had been served, it was held that the purchaser of land under an executory contract who after making the initial payment defaulted had abandoned. Several years after the contract was made the parties entered into an agreement whereby Harms, the purchaser, leased the property from Boyn-ton, the seller. The Supreme Court affirmed a holding by the circuit judge that the lease was obtained without fraud, and that Harms\u2019 execution of it and occupancy of the land thereunder constituted a surrender of whatever rights he formerly had. Miner v. Boynton, 89 N. W. 336, 129 Mich. 584. The same appellate court, in affirming Dundas v. Foster, 274 N. W. 731, 281 Mich. 117, reached a like result in 1937, but there, again, notice of forfeiture had been given.\nCases are cited by the textwriter, Vendor and Purchaser-Abandonment, Corpus Juris, v. 66, pp. 730-31, sustaining the summary that conduct from which intent may be clearly inferred is the controlling consideration, and this is a question of fact.\nWhere the parties made a new contract, containing no reference to the former agreement, the original was held to have been abandoned. Weaver v. Propst, 28 S. W. 2d 872. The decision was by the Texas Court of Civil Appeals. Likewise, a second sale of property without objection from the equitable grantee was treated in Iowa as a mutual abandonment of the first contract. Miller v. McConnell, 179 la. 377, 157 N. W. 943, [rehearing denied, but opinion modified, 161 N. W. 461].\nApplying these principles to the case at bar, appellant must lose. While there is some argument that the contract between Vandivort upon the one hand and Boyd-stun and Cooley on the other recognized the Yount commitments of 1929 as late as 1934, the explanations by these three parties that other contracts were contemplated and that Vandivort\u2019s seeming purpose at all times was to treat the rental or lease contracts as responsive to the wishes of all the Wallaces \u2014 these and many other facts and circumstances point clearly to acquiescence in the substituted status, continuing from 1932 to 1945.\nAffirmed.\nAppellant filed a supersedeas bond, but paid $2,060.24, leaving an apparent balance of $507.44, plus the value of \u00cd949 crops un-gathered or undisposed of when the cause was submitted. Because uncertain computations must be made, the cause is remanded for the single purpose of determining what amount is still chargeable against appellant and his bondsmen.", "type": "majority", "author": "G-rifeiN Smith, Chief Justice." } ], "attorneys": [ "Cecil Grooms, for appellant.", "II. M. Cooley, Harry Ponder, Jr., and Harry C. Blanton, for appellee." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "Wallace v. Johnson.\n4-9281\n234 S. W. 2d 49\nOpinion delivered November 13, 1950.\nRehearing denied December 11, 1950.\nCecil Grooms, for appellant.\nII. M. Cooley, Harry Ponder, Jr., and Harry C. Blanton, for appellee." }, "file_name": "0878-01", "first_page_order": 902, "last_page_order": 915 }